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Women Philosophers on Autonomy

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135173380X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Women Philosophers on Autonomy written by Sandrine Berges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We encounter autonomy in virtually every area of philosophy: in its relation with rationality, personality, self-identity, authenticity, freedom, moral values and motivations, and forms of government, legal, and social institutions. At the same time, the notion of autonomy has been the subject of significant criticism. Some argue that autonomy outweighs or even endangers interpersonal or collective values, while others believe it alienates subjects who don’t possess a strong form of autonomy. These marginalized subjects and communities include persons with physical or psychological disabilities, those in dire economic conditions, LGBTI persons, ethnic and religious minorities, and women in traditional communities or households. This volume illuminates possible patterns in these criticisms of autonomy by bringing to light and critically assessing the contribution of women throughout the history of philosophy on this important subject. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of historical periods and influential female philosophers and thinkers, from medieval philosophy through to contemporary debates. Important authors whose work is considered, among many others, include Hildegard of Bingen, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Susan Moller Okin, Hélène Cixous, Iris Marion Young, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Women Philosophers on Autonomy will enlighten and inform contemporary debates on autonomy by bringing into the conversation previously neglected female perspectives from throughout history.

Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender

Author : Andrea Veltman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969108
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender written by Andrea Veltman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays examine philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism and autonomy studies. Are autonomy and independence useful goals for women and subordinate persons? Is autonomy possible in contexts of social subordination and oppression? Is the pursuit of desires that issue from patriarchal norms consistent with autonomous agency? How should we understand the concepts of relational autonomy and adaptive preferences? How do emotions and caring relate to autonomous deliberation? Contributors to this collection answer these and related questions.

Autonomy, Gender, Politics

Author : Marilyn Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190286008
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy, Gender, Politics written by Marilyn Friedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice, subordination, and oppression. The lingering effects of these practices have prompted many feminists to view autonomy with suspicion. Here, Marilyn Friedman defends the ideal of feminist autonomy. In her eyes, behavior is autonomous if it accords with the wants, cares, values, or commitments that the actor has reaffirmed and is able to sustain in the face of opposition. By her account, autonomy is socially grounded yet also individualizing and sometimes socially disruptive, qualities that can be ultimately advantageous for women. Friedman applies the concept of autonomy to domains of special interest to women. She defends the importance of autonomy in romantic love, considers how social institutions should respond to women who choose to remain in abusive relationships, and argues that liberal societies should tolerate minority cultural practices that violate women's rights so long as the women in question have chosen autonomously to live according to those practices.

Relational Autonomy

Author : Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352602
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Relational Autonomy written by Catriona Mackenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard accounts, between autonomy and other aspects of the agent, including self-conception, self-worth, memory, and the imagination.

Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression

Author : Marina A.L. Oshana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135036098
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression written by Marina A.L. Oshana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.

Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy

Author : Morwenna Griffiths
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253204615
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy written by Morwenna Griffiths and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... excellent... Especially insightful are articles on ethics and gender, autonomy and pornography, feelings, and a responsible and democratic epistemology." --Choice The essays in this book introduce to American readers the work of a group of British feminist philosophers, representing both the Continental and the analytic traditions, who argue that philosophy is in urgent need of a feminist perspective.

Setting the Moral Compass

Author : Cheshire Calhoun
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195154754
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Setting the Moral Compass written by Cheshire Calhoun and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the Moral Compass brings together the (largely unpublished) work of nineteen women moral philosophers whose powerful and innovative work has contributed to the "re-setting of the compass" of moral philosophy over the past two decades. The contributors, who include many of the top names in this field, tackle several wide-ranging projects: they develop an ethics for ordinary life and vulnerable persons; they examine the question of what we ought to do for each other; they highlight the moral significance of inhabiting a shared social world; they reveal the complexities of moral negotiations; and finally they show us the place of emotion in moral life.

Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy

Author : Carolyn McLeod
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263771
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy written by Carolyn McLeod and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the importance of self-trust for women's autonomy in reproductive health. The power of new medical technologies, the cultural authority of physicians, and the gendered power dynamics of many patient-physician relationships can all inhibit women's reproductive freedom. Often these factors interfere with women's ability to trust themselves to choose and act in ways that are consistent with their own goals and values. In this book Carolyn McLeod introduces to the reproductive ethics literature the idea that in reproductive health care women's self-trust can be undermined in ways that threaten their autonomy. Understanding the importance of self-trust for autonomy, McLeod argues, is crucial to understanding the limits on women's reproductive freedom. McLeod brings feminist insights in philosophical moral psychology to reproductive ethics, and to health-care ethics more broadly. She identifies the social environments in which self-trust is formed and encouraged. She also shows how women's experiences of reproductive health care can enrich our understanding of self-trust and autonomy as philosophical concepts. The book's theoretical components are grounded in women's concrete experiences. The cases discussed, which involve miscarriage, infertility treatment, and prenatal diagnosis, show that what many women feel toward themselves in reproductive contexts is analogous to what we feel toward others when we trust or distrust them. McLeod also discusses what health-care providers can do to minimize the barriers to women's self-trust in reproductive health care, and why they have a duty to do so as part of their larger duty to respect patient autonomy.

Self, Society, and Personal Choice

Author : Diana T. Meyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231064194
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Self, Society, and Personal Choice written by Diana T. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyers (philosophy, U. of Conn.) examines the question of personal autonomy. She observes the effects of childrearing practices and sexual biases, and reflects upon the results in women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Politics of Women's Health

Author : Susan Sherwin
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566396332
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Health written by Susan Sherwin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.

The Politics of Our Selves

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136234
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Our Selves written by Amy Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. All too often, these understandings of the self are assumed to be incompatible. Amy Allen, however, argues that the capacity for autonomy is rooted in the very power relations that constitute the self. Her theoretical framework illuminates both aspects of what she calls, following Foucault, the "politics of our selves." It analyzes power in all its depth and complexity, including the complicated phenomenon of subjection, without giving up on the ideal of autonomy. Drawing on original and critical readings of a diverse group of theorists, Allen shows how the self can be both constituted by power and capable of an autonomous self-constitution.

Being Yourself

Author : Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742571335
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Being Yourself written by Diana Tietjens Meyers and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent, variety, and intractability of misogynist gender systems and the intersections between gender inequity and other forms of injustice expose tensions between the value of individuality and the disvalue of systematic social and economic subordination. The former presupposes a type of freedom that the latter aims to suppress. These essays develop an action theory that takes this contradiction into account—an action theory for feminists and other social dissidents.

Beyond Separateness

Author : Richard Schmitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429970617
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Separateness written by Richard Schmitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in great detail the different aspects of dominant individualistic ideas about persons. It argues that an alternative conception of persons, favored by many feminist thinkers, is more complicated than is often thought but can be shown to be a reasonable and plausible conception.

Philosophy for Girls

Author : Melissa Shew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190072911
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Girls written by Melissa Shew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This revolutionary book empowers its readers intellectually by providing a snapshot of perennial and timely philosophical topics. Written by twenty expert women in philosophy and representing a diverse and pluralistic approach to philosophy as a discipline, this book appeals to a wide audience. Individual readers, especially girls and women ages 16-24, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women will find value in these pages. This volume contains several notable features: the book is divided into four sections that correspond to major fields in Philosophy-metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics-but the chapters within those sections provide fresh ways of understanding those fields. " Every chapter begins with a lively anecdote about a girl or woman in literature, myth, history, science, or art to introduce the chapter's specific topic." Chapters are dominated by women's voices, with nearly all primary and secondary sources used coming from women in the history of philosophy and a diverse set of contemporary women philosophers. "All chapters offer the authors' distinct philosophical perspectives written in their own voices and styles, representing diverse training, backgrounds, and interests." The Introduction and Prologue explicitly invite the book's readers to engage in philosophical conversation and reflection, thus setting the stage for continued contemplation and dialogue beyond the book itself. The result is a rigorous yet accessible entry-point into serious philosophical contemplation designed to embolden and strengthen its readers' own senses of philosophical inquiry and competence. The book's readers will feel confident in knowing that expert women affirm an equitable and just intellectual landscape for all and thus have lovingly collaborated to write this book"--

Feminist Philosophers

Author : Jean Grimshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Philosophers written by Jean Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy

Author : Eva Feder Kittay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470695382
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy by : Eva Feder Kittay

Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy written by Eva Feder Kittay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.

Relational Autonomy

Author : Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195123340
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Relational Autonomy written by Catriona Mackenzie and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility.